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that power can be advantageously exercised, is utterly in defensible on any principle recognised in well-ordered com munities. Yet this ruinous policy was pursued by the Tories throughout the last Session. Lord Melbourne again and again told the Lords of their folly, and pre dicted the consequences. The composition of the Coun cil was first assailed by all manner of silly cavilling. Afterwards, on the 7th of August, Lord Brougham made the ordinances the foundation of a most enve nomed attack on the Government of Lord Durham. " It was no light matter," said the Noble and Learned Lord, " that the monstrous unconstitutional laws entrusted to this Council should be used in so reckless a manner"---[Opposition cheers, as if their Lordships in their closets at home knew better what the exigency demanded than the responsible authority on the spot acquainted with all the circumstances.] "If these powers were to be exercised at all, it was impossible that they could be exercised too cautiously, too sparingly, and with too great an attention to the consistency of each act with the law of the land, and with too great a regard for common sense and justice." [How could you tell, Doctor Brougham, how the powers ought to be exercised ? What was the use of delegating extensive powers, when you could so easily tell beforehand the exact manner in which the powers were to be exercised? Statesmanship with a ven geance !] " The sooner something was done, by instruc tion or by Bill, to curb the powers which, he had shown, were exercised without the slightest consideration, the better." And in an assembly, not of school-boys, but of bearded men, this nonsense was listened to, and even applauded. If the powers were exercised without the slightest conside ration, Lord Durham ought not to have been suffered to remain a day longer in the colony than the space required to convey the summons for his immediate departure. Lord Melbourne observed : " That it must have struck all your Lordships, on conside ration of all the circumstances which led to Lord Durham's mission, that the great powers—no less than legislative powers —to be exercised by him in connection with a council of his nomination, being of an unusual and extraordinary nature, must be exercised in an unusual and extraordinary way. I therefore implore your Lordships to consider the circumstances of the colony—to consider the circumstances in which Lord Durham is placed—to consider the difficulties which he has to contend with—and also to consider what I have before alluded to ; namely, his being on the spot, and being aware of the whole of the facts, and consequently being the best judge as to what measures it was necessary or expedient to adopt :—a much better judge than your Lordships can possibly be. Therefore, I say, it is not right—it is not prudent—it is not just, Ido not mean merely towards Lord Durham, but to yourselves and the measures you have passed—it is not just to the interests of this great empire to concede these measures in such a manner as to su f fer yourselves to be too cinch struck by any anomaly which may appear on the . face of them, or by any disparity between the steps tak , m by Lord Durham and the practice of this country, in a settled state of society, and in times of perfect tranquillity, where no peril or danger could be apprehended." This sentence embraces, in fact, the whole question. Lord Durham and his Council were vested with legislative powers, and to say that the powers of the Legislature should not be co-extensive with the exigencies of the state is to be tray the grossest ignorance of what is implied by a Legis lature. The Legislature is omnipotent at home. In times of danger it imprisons without trial—nay, in times of com motion it delegates to unfledged officers the power of sum mary execution. And yet, forsooth, Lord Durham, in a country so critically circumstanced as Canada is, with the great body of the population aliens to England in laws and in language, just defeated in an attempt to shake off her authority, is to exercise the extensive powers intrusted to him as if he and his Council were quietly domi ciled in the county of Middlesex. Lord Melbourne roceeded to observe that if their Lordships con sidered that Lord Durham had acted imprudently, unwisely, unjustly, unfortunately, in such a man ner as to hazard the interests of the country in that part of the empire, it would be unquestionably wise in them to interfere to prevent such a course from being per severed in ; but " if they did not see any ground for inter fering, there was but one other course to take—to have some confidence in him to whom they had delegated such high powers, to place some reliance on his judgment, and not to be perpetually interrupting the course of his pro ceedings by incessant comments on his conduct, and thus weakening their own authority, and the authority of the Government, by an implied condemnation of that which they did not mean openly to censure." His Lordship added these memorable words, which, if ever applicable, were as suredly so to the Tory majority of the House of Lords, who scrupled not to sacrifice the interests of their country to the lowest and most despicable feelings that ever were entertained by a party : It is," said k 3, " unfortunately one of the evils which ap pertain to popular governments (for all governments have their faults)—indeed it is one of the ingenita vitia of such a form of government, that in consequence of political strife, of Folitical attacks, and party and personal dislike, the enemy of the country, whether foreign or domestic, has always found the greatest assistance and encouragement in the bosom of the Le gislative Assemblies. That has always been the ease, and it is undoubtedly a great misfortune." The feelings of exultation with which Papineau and his associates must have gloated over the reports of the efforts of Lords Brougham, Lyndhurst, and Ellenborough to pave the way for future rebellion in Canada, by striking at the authority of Lord Durham, would form the best com mentary on the conduct of the Tories. Space will not allow us to proceed further at this time in travelling over the records of Tory infamy ; but we shall resume the task. They are secure from all other punishment ; but the public indignation shall reach them.—Morning Chronicle. We quoted yesterday from the Maidstone Journal, an account of the effect upon the fruit-growers in Kent, of that relaxation of the duties on foreign fruit, which was deter mined on last session by the Cha nce ll or o f t h e E xc h equer, and which has just come into operation. A few days ago 200 bushels of foreign pears passed the Custom House, paying only fourpence per bushel of duty, instead of seven shillings and sixpence, as heretofore. The consequence of this change of system must be utter ruin to the English fruit-grower, and the case in question furnishes an addi tional illustration of the character of our prevailing com mercial policy. The end and object of that policy is, to sacrifice every class, in succession, of native producers, to the insatiable - lust of cheapness, by which our idle con sumers are possessed. Great Britain has risen (as all powerful countries of which history furnishes any record have risen) to eminence and influence, by regarding the interests of the producing classes as paramount over those of mere consumers ; and if Great Britain is destined to de scend from her pride of place amongst the nations, the causes of her descent—manifold although they may appear —will be found to resolve themselves (as the causes of de cline in all thenations that have hitherto passed away have re solved themselves) into an inversion, by legislative influence, of that order, which nature has established between the con suminc, and producing classes—an order which never can be violated long, but at the risk of social dis solution. No men appear to regard a falling revenue with deeper dismay, than do our present rulers. Yet mark the unceasing ingenuity which they evince, in order to bring about the result, which when made manifest, overwhelms them with terror. How clumsy were the at tempted evasions by Mr. Spring Rice, last year, of the difficulties, to which a falling Revenue reduced him ! How rapturous, on the other hand, was the flapping of wings, on all the unsavoury heaps in the purlieus of Downing street, when the income of the country gave indications, a few days ago, of even partial and temporary amend ment ! Yet, here—in the case before us—we have a picture " in little" of Whig wisdom and its characteristics. Here, we see our official political economists absolutely throwing away a Revenue derivable from foreign fruit ; ,d—for the mere duty abandoned, is in itself compara tively trivial in amount—crippling the means, which a . large cla ss o f nat i ve producers has hitherto possessed, of contributing to the general tr burde n s of the country ! This case of the Englisl brief fruit-grow ers affords, as we have al ready stated, a " c abst ract " o f t h e pr i nc i p l es of Whig commercial policy, Only mark the operation of this most unjust reduction ction of th e d u t y on f ore ign the fruits ! Note, bowsocial evils caused by one little impolitic movement may diffuse themselves, on the part of a Government, the gradually-widening circles which are caused by l the e violent displacing of a small portion of water ! The unfairreducti on o f th e d u t y on foreign fruits involves, in the first dimi nution of the national income from that a direct •rom change robs, moreover, a valuable class of (who have, on the faith of legislative protection. emb ons e a n ti t n . g, or nearly their capi tals in the trade affected) of that comp merely is the compensating price, to which they were entitled to look aamtrkens:duree- The forward in a season of scarcity. But not class of cultivators in question robbed of a partial and temporary protection from loss ; their . per manently deprived of at l east one prop ert i es are h laf the value th a t pre viously belonged to them. That depreciation of property is caused by the necessary abandonment of their trade to foreigners ; —and that abandonment of a branch of native industry not merely inflicts injury on the capitalists who car ried it on, but on a considerable body of labourers, whom that branch of industry supplied with the means of occupa tion. This process of narrowing the market for native la bour, and the fi e ld for the employment of native capital, l in jures to a certain, although scarcely definable degree, all other classes of labourers and capitalists—in the first place, by increasing, to a greater or a lesser extent, the general pressure of competition in the employment both of c apital and of labour—and iu th© s econ d pl ace , by lessening to precisely the same extent, the consumption in the home market, of the other products of native industry. Then follows increased pressure on the poor rates, accompanied with diminished means of supportin g the burden which they impose. Then come the customary denunciations of the poor—because they are without th a t emp l oyment, o f w hi c h the legislature has, by its specific acts, deprived them then come, on the other hand, the feeling of hatred towards property, the sense of injustice inflicted by law, and those deep desires of vengeance against the privileged classes by whom the law is " ruled"—dosires which, when they have thoroughly leavened the mass of the labouring poor, deprive the possessions of the rich of their best—their only ulti mate safeguard. And for what mighty object, are these results, "in little" risked in the case before us? Simply, in order that the lovers of deserts may enjoy a luxury on unnaturally cheap terms. The advantage to fruit-buyers is scarcely perceptible, and will command no gratitude from the men who will monopolise it. The loss, on the other hand, to a large class of native producers, is hardly to be calculated—and the consequences involved in it are full of the elements of peril (however minute the actual amount) to the existence of social order. And such is the unerring tendency of Whig commercial policy ! Such are the paths of pleasantness in which the political economists are never weary of soliciting us to walk I Another circumstance of no light moment, in connection with the reduction of duty on foreign fruit, is well pointed out by the Maidstone Jonrn4 " But there is another circumstance connected with this subject, which, if the measure remain unrepealed, will be a source of greater injustice than any we have named, amount ing, in fact, to positive robbery. We allude to its effect upon agreements under the Act for the commutation of tithes. These agreements, it is known, are calculated on the average produce for seven years, ending with 1835. Now, in the fruit parishes of this county, fruit has in many instances been valued nearly as high as hops—we may state the average at about 255. an acre ; whereas now, in the opinion of able and experienced men, five shillings will be much nearer the value of the tithe on fruit. lf, therefore, the present regula tion of fruit duties remains unaltered, the fruit land will be charged with a rate of tithe five times as high as its real value."—Morning Herald. The Ministerial Papers do not cease to pour forth a stream of misrepresentation touching the conduct of the Tory party in the affavr of Lord Durham's government of Canada. It seems to us, therefore, to be our duty to re turn to this matter, and to do our part in the assertion of truth, as opposed to the untruth which is so perseveringly promulgated. The interference of the Haase of Lords with Lord Durham's ordinances is described under the figure of the House having made itself " an Executive Committee for conducting the affairs of Canada." Than this nothing can be more untrue, and it is an untruth ma nifestly addressed to the very ignorant, since all persons of intelligence must know that they who possess the predomi nating influence in the Upper House of Parliament, are extremely averse, both by principle and by habit, from in terference with the legal acts of the Executive Govern ment, whether it be conducted by their friends or their ad versaries. Instead of the House of Lords usurping the func tions of the Executive, the case in question was that of the Legislature (and eventually the responsible Ministers of the Crown) interfering to save a deputed and colonial Executive from the consequences of illegal acts. Whatever the House of Lords did was merely as a branch of the Legislature, and it was agreed to by the House of Com mons and the Crown upon the recommendation of her Majesty's Ministers. That the Ministerial Journals should now attempt to shift the responsibility of that to which Ministers consented upon the House of Lords, would ap pear to all the world a most monstrous instance of mean ness and perfidy, were it not that the public have been of late so accustomed to meanness and perfidy on the part of Ministers and those employed by them, that any new act of the same quality soon becomes almost as indistinct " as water is in water." It is also affirmed by the Ministerialists that for the Tories to whisper one sylla ble of dissatisfaction with Ministers in reference to the disallowing of Lord Durham's ordinances , and passing the Bill of Indemnity, is to be guilty of the height of effrontery. In this a dishonest confusion is attempted to be made by suggesting a cause of Tory dissatisfaction with the Ministry which is not the true one. The Tories do not object to the conduct of the Ministry, because the disallowance of the ordinances was bad policy. They ad mit that it was right policy to disallow the ordinances, but touching the Ministerial individuals who did so it was mean and base, because in doing so they were guilty of treachery to a confederate, and moreover they did so (upon their own showing), not because they thought it right, but because they were not strong enough to resist doing so. In short, they did what (to them) seemed wrong, rather than put their places to imminent hazard, by standing out for what seemed to them right. Suppose that in same walk of life less elevated than than of statesmen a conspiracy existed to do an illegal act, and that some of the conspirators, for the sake of their own gain, joined the police in bringing the rest to punishment, no one who respected the law could disapprove of the act per se which gave a triumph to the law over those who had conspired against it ; but they might very well scorn the mean and sordid men who had turned against their fellows, because they found a profit or avoided a danger in so doing. There is, then, we submit, no " effrontery " and no incon sistency on the part of the Tories, who at once commend the policy of disallowing the illegal ordinances, and treat with scorn and contumely the Ministers who fir:A defended these ordinances, and then condemned them, because they did not dire to proceed with their defence. The journals which, while they Oppose Tory principles and Tory policy (we leave out of the question one " democratic" deserter% are free f-om the trammels of Ministerial sycophancy, do not scruple to tell the plain truth about Ministerial condu 't in this matter. They say that it was the result of Ministerial weakness, combined with Ministerial attachment to office. Lord Melbourne and his colleagues would probably have supported Lord Durham in his illegality, if they could have done so without danger to their own interest as place-holders. In what they did it was not because they loved Lord Durham ss, hut because they loved themselves more. They coul not uphold him, except at the ex pense of putting t eir places in great jeopardy, and that was a price whic hey did not think proper to pay even for the upholding of Lord Durham's Whig-Radical and illegal despotism. It became a choice between the certain sacri fice of Lord Durham's ordinances and the probable sacrifice of their profitable and pleasant positions in the Cabinet and at the Court. No one who is acquainted with the character of Whig-Radicalism can feel at all surprised that, under such circumstances, its official leaders took care of themselves, and left their friend in the lurch. If there had been any doubt or misgiving in the public mind as to the conduct of the Ministers towards Lord Durham in August last, it must have.been dissipated by the very incautious republication (by a Ministerial Paper) of an extract from Lord John Russell's speech when calling upon the House of Commons to pass the Indemnity Bill. Never was a more palpable shuffle exhibited in words than Lord John exhibited on that occasion. Never was there a more ob vious attempt to blow hot and cold with the same mouth than in the following passage : " I ask you at once to pass this Bill of Indemnity, limited as it is, but telling you at the same time that when the time comes I shall be prepared, not indeed to say that the terms or words of the Ordinance passed by the Earl of Durham are altogether to be justified—and not that I think it a light mat ter, as the Honourable Member for Westminster supposed, that persons not arraigned or summoned to answer for the offences of which they are charged should be punished if found wilhin the province—but I shall be prepared to say that, looking at the conduct of the Earl of Durham as a whole—that believing him to be animated by the deepest zeal for the welfare of the country—that believing him likewise to have wished to avoid anything which could be construed into an act of unnecessary severity—that believing these things, I shall be ready to take part with him. I shall be ready to bear my share of any responsibility which is to be incurred in these difficult circums4-inces." The way in which Lord John took his " share of the responsibility" in this case was, by having a Bill of In demnity passed, acknowledging that Lord Durham had done wrong, and screening him from the consequences by the authority of Parliament I Most chivalrous Lord John ! We never in our lives saw a heavier example of the " forcible feeble" than the above Ministerial shuffle ex hibits. It is verbose—flat—contradictory. It has but one pervading quality in which it is consistent from be ginning to end, and consistent also with the Ministerial character—it is mean, most mean ; and so even Lord Dur ham, whom it was intended so clumsily to flatter, must have felt it. The whole career of this Ministry, from the beginning to the present day, has been despicable, and it may congratulate itself on having reached the very pin nacle of paltriness in the Canada business. Let us take comfort in the old adage, that " when things come to the worst they must mend."—Mornin g Post. In reverting to the subject of the Durham controversy, we are frank to own that we do so with considerable reluc tance ; not that we are at any time either afraid or ashamed 1 to express our sentiments, but because we are perfectly aware that those sentiments, be they what they may, are liable to gross misinterpretation, and that the time is not D s u t r e h r a d ns ay yet come when either Contemporaries, pledged t o p art i cu l ar opinio ns , or th e exc it emen t o f th e p u bli c , w ill perm i t coo l and un bi asse d reason to h ave i ts f a i r sway. I n our art i cle yesterday h it ad wa n s o ou o r ee m os a i i o n n o t lge r c e t si t g o nthe prove, first, that Lord high office with which he was entrusted by her Majesty's Government— secondly, that he had only ex hibit e d a proo f o f unstates m anlike weakness in throwin g up hi s office, because it had pleased find just parties i n t h e two H ouses o f Par liament t o fault l with the exerci se o f it s du ties—thirdly, that he }oadno just reason to c o mpl a i n o f the Home Government fo thator e althoughner his Lord s hip' s retire ment for not havin g d u l y supporte d hi m— him—and, lastly, the Go r ve a-G of Canad a was an e vent to be deplored, as postponing for several m on th s hiP the settlement of the affairs of Canada, yet that there were men, independently of his Lordship, quite as w e ll qualified to carry on the Government of Canada, • , and, in conse quence, that no " crisis" had occu rre d, and no " dismay " ought to he entertained for the future fate of the country, We now approach a more pa i nful part of the subjeet— w e mean the proof, on the one hand, that Lord D ur h am has THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OeTOBEIt 24, 1838. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, dealt most unfairly by his friends in declaring that " he had ' been put down and sacrificed by them ;" and, on the other, that he boasts, in his reply to an address presented to him, of having accomplished more for Canada than he either has or could by possibility have effected. The proof of the first position we shall not enlarge upon. It is plain and irrefragable ; and nothing but the lack of reason, the ab sence of memory, or an excess of passion, given to misin terpretation, and capable of smothering both, could by pos sibility have mistaken it. The discussion of Lord Dur ham's ordinances commenced, as many of our readers are no doubt aware, on the 10th of August last, and on the 14th of the same month Lord John Russell spoke as fol lows upon the subject : " I feel no doubt," said his Lordship, " that the responsi bility is great ; doubt the Earl of Durham will feel that the responsibility is not only great, but painful ; but I do trust that, supported as I hope he will be by the general con currence of the province of Canada, that supported as I think he may expect to be by Parliament, he will consider that - he is hound to give his country his services, unmindful of the obloquy, and unmindful of the attacks which may attend his course. It is certainly different treatment from what he had a right to exp Et." And again in another part of his speech, we find the fol lowing expression of warm and heartfelt support : " With this impression on my mind, therefore," said his Lordship, I ask you at once to pass this Bill of indemnity, limited as it is ; but telling you at the same time that, when the time comes, I shall be prepared, not indeed to say that the terms or words of the ordinance passed by the Earl of Dur. ham are altogether to be justified—and not that I think it a light matter, as the Honourable Member for Westminster supposed, that persons not arraigned or summoned to an swer for the offences of which they are charged should be punished if found within the province—but I shall be pre rated to say, that looking at the conduct of the Earl of Dur ham as a whole—that, believing him to be animated by the deepest zeal for the welfare of this country—that, believing him likewise to have wished to avoid anything which eoulH be construed into an act of unnecessary severity—that, be lieving these things, I shall be ready to take part with him. I shall be ready to bear my share of any responsibility which is to be incurred in these difficult circumstances. And Ido say, that if the province of Lower Canada be preserved to this country—that if, the insurrection being suppressed, the punishment of death can be altogether avoided in practice, and that if we shall be able to restore to that province the enjo)ment of a free constitution, I do think that no invec tive—that no sophistry—that no accumulation of circum stances—that no bitterness of sarcasm, accompanied by pro fessions of friendship, and thereby attempting to disguise, but not in fact disguising, the petty and personal feelings which are at the bottom of all these attacks, will in the least degree affect the Noble Earl against whom they have been levelled ; but that he will have deserved well of his country, well of his Sovereign, and well of our posterity." Whether, after the exhibition of feeling in behalf of his Lordship from the leader of the House of Commons and the organ of the Government, Lord Durham has a right to complain of having been " put down and sacrificed by his friends," we leave our readers to judge. They could not justify his conduct in every respect, and in accordance with the strict lt-tter of the law ; but that they did at tempt to defend it, and that too with hearty goodwill, is not only apparent from the above extracts from Lord John Russell's speeches, but also from numerous passages in those of Lords Melbourne and Glenelg, for which we have not room. To another point it is even more pain ful to us to advert—and that is his Lordship's asser tion—in his answer to the delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island, assembled at Quebec to confer with him on the confederation of the British North American provinces—" that in the short space of three months he had seen tranquillity re stored, and confidence reviving," as the result of his endeavours. Now this is a strong assertion ; but un fortunately it happens to b e as void of foundation as we deem his Lordship's resignation to have been unjustified by any act of her Majesty's Ministers. All the tranquillity that has ever existed since the last outbreak of the insur rection, did actually exist before Lord Durham left the shores of his native country ; and, what is more to the point, greater tranquillity or a better understanding between the French and English inhabitants does not exist even now, than existed at the period referred to. The same disaffec tion and the same distrust—the same jealousies and the same heart-burnings--are as rife now as they were six months ago. Lord Durham has done nothing certainly to add to them, but he has done nothing to allay them. He has not, indeed, had sufficient time. The discontents in Canada are not of a day's growth, nor arc they to be got rid of in three months, either by Lord Durham or by any senses , or of the present day whom he is likely to have. They are of long sten ling, and his Lordship might as well boast of having extinguished them in three years, instead of three months, as of being able to put out the fires which render Etna and Vesuvius a terror to their neighbouring inhabitants.—Mornin g Advertiser. ASSETRANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. '23. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per hares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. A shten and Oldham...Average 97/.lBs. sh. 135 1,092 V. Ashby-de-10-Zouch Average 111'.:..h. '73 1,260 Basingsl.oke 1001.6h. 5 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150:. sh. 90 8,000 I-16sh. 9/ 6s. Birmingham, 1.16 th share.., 81/. & 71/. 218 1000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1 ,4 0/ sh. 100 pd 241 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater . lOO/. sh. 101 500 491 Caventry lOW. sh. 73.5 4.545 .. . Croydon 2,060; 4!.03. Dudley ...„. 10 q. sh. $4 800 14i. Derby 1001. sh . 135 20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 4l/.135. 4d .pd 30 3,575} V. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. h. 90i 231 461. Erewash I (s.q.sti. '740 1,297 29/. Forth and Clyde Average 440/ .1 Cs. ill. SCO 1,600 121. Grand Junction 100 e. sh. 191 4,5491 11. Grand Union 100/.sh Y 4 11,500 Grand Surrey 0,000/. 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. I'3 3 496 690 131.125. Pd. Glamorgansh ire, Average cost 172/.138.4d, 23E '749 101. Grantham 150/.sh. 203 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. Os. 6d. sii. 37 100 Kensington 100 th all pd. 10 5.129 11. ss. Kennet ind Avon, Average 391.19..10d. sh. 251 2,9971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 670 545! 13/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 920 1 , 8 : 1 7 61. Os. Leicester and. Northampton.- Aver.Q/. lo s. 90 2.400 101. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 20 i 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/.Bh. 575 3,000 11.10 s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 52 247 174 Neath 9,400 51. Peak Forest Ave' ..ge about 78/. sh. 102 1,418 lea. Regent's (or London) Aver. 031. 16s. Ed. sh. 16; 6,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 8/51. sh. 109 500 Si. tihropshire V.zs/. sh. 140 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 1514 3,600/. 4i per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 11; 700 401. Stairord and Worcester 140/. sh. 710 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 190 300 91. Stourbridge .... ... _ - ... 1451.3h. 500 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. tsd. sh. 40 533 151. Swansea MO/. sh. '2.50 3,76'2 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway... Av. 35/. sh. 85 ',Moist'. !'.21. 10s. Trent and Mersey, } share 100/. sh. 600 8.149 Thames ...nd Medway... Aver. 191. !is. ad. sh. 2 1.00.05h.1 16/. Warwick sad Birmingham . 1001. sh• 28 1 ,000. is h. 280 151. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 90 ,000 4/.os. Worcester and Birmingham...A v.79/.83. sh. 731 5,000 255. Wilts an, Berko .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 23 ROO 31, IN yrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 905 ie. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 221 DOCKS. MOO& 1,0655 h } O p' c Commercial ..'ool.sh. 56 East and West India ....Stock 110 1,238,31914 555. p.ct. London Stock 61 Ditto ;Jon's 101 2,209 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,024/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 [.35`2,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 107 5011,000 45 per cent. Ditto Bonds w`.,)(59 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO5 2.500 Deptford Piet 0 01. sh. 201. pd 11 BRIDGES. Hammertm , ti 5O/. sh. 21 Southwark, Old Ditto, New, of 71, r cent. sol. sh. 14 Waterloo Ditto, Old Annuities of 9/. 6O/. pd 21 Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd IF; Ditto Bondi 112 Vauxhall Ay - rage 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 23 ASSURANCE: COMPAN:ES. Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 73 1,600 7,31 1,100 It. 15s. 3,000 5,000 11 , 1 s. M. 5,000 16s. 4d. 50,0001. 51. per cent. 5,518 173 2,003 .... 3110 s s°,"`"" '' [ s a p n e d r e l e s n s. t .l Alliance,British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1 01 4 pd 14; 100/. sh. pd 6/ 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 24,000 ill per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 5/. pil 14; 1,200 ',-sh. 5/. Birmingham P ire 2501. 5h..551. pd 107; 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 41) 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 51'4 sh. 51. pd 6 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical, Medi. el, &c. Life, ICol.sh. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 21 10s County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 2., „„ trasnpilerwelebn,t„.l Economic lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 375 2,271 223. percent. European late Lnr 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd I; 1,000,0001. 71. per ct Globe Stock 144; 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 27,1,1 pd 35; 40,000 6s. 641. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 6 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 50/. pd 130 7,500 Os. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 101. pd 10; 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine .......: ....... 100/. sh. 8/. psi 23 2,020 3/ 10s Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life. 79 10, , 00 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 33 smg 10s. London, Fir. 25/ sh. 12/. 103. pd 10 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 16 lOW. sh. 504 sh. 21. pd 21 Es 04 I 30 ,0 3 0: 9 0, 0, ) , 00 0 0 015.1. perl. .. ........... London,ine Palladiumv S L h i l f i j e p t 0 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fire 0 01. sh. 2/. pd 17s Od 2,500 1/. Provident late lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 0 04 sh. 1/. pd 6; 699,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Ste,•k... 225; 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 5I 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,0(10 8 per cent. Agric and Comm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 401. pi 10,,4 , 6 10 per cent. Bank of Bit mingham 5(l. sh. 101. pd .0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 3),000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 201. pd 60,000 51. London Joint Stock 53/. sh. 10/. pd .i,OOO 4 per cent. Lancaster......... ...... .... ........ 100/. sh. 201. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 100,000 7; per cent Manchester and Liverpoel l 50/.0. 15/ p 4 District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/.5h. 25/ pi 20,000 Provincial Burk of lreiand 1001. sh. 251. psi SO, 00 National Bank of Ireland - 5-1. sh. 171/. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 35/. pd 10,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. Rd. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5/. ral GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1103 Od Bath 2Ol. sh. Pl. pd 5,000 British 404 sh. 16/. pd moo I.s.i.,pdeftcsezt...l Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pi 026 5110 s Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 1,250 21 Os Bristol 2o'. sh. 1,500 3/ 10s Brighton 20/. sh. 750 3/ Its Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 2,471 4; per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 1,000 5/. Continental Consolidated 1,000 101. City 01 London ............,....1001. sh. all pd 1, 1 00 61. Ditto, New 1,000 41.105. Equitable 501.1x) 10,1'00 2; per cent. Imperial 800 5/ per cent. Isle of Thatiet '2sl. sh. '2Ol. pi 2 ,350 61. per cent. 1 ndependent 3O/. sh. all pd 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix .... 50/. sir. 39/. pi 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. SO/. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 11)/. pd 3 ,200 51. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 240 5/. per cont. Warwick 501. sh. 40 0 51. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 2 ,000 3/, Westminster Chartered 6 , 000 12s. Ditto New EGO Yarmouth . 201. sh. 131. pd WATER WORKS. 1,800 g s. Birmingham 25/. sh. t.`sl. pd 4,434 61. East London lOO4 sh. 5 ,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 21, Kent 1001. sh. 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1 ,500 21 106 Now River London Bridge Water Annuities ( i, 4 86 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 8,234 41. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 1 . 3 60 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6 , 3 00 ......... Birmingham and Derby 4O/, pd 9 , 500 ......... Birmingham and Gloucester 15,1 , 00 Bristol and Exeter IDOL sh. 15 pd 660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 21. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. sh. 121/ 3,003 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001 pd 12,000 ......... Commercial Blackwell 504 sh. 2/. pd 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 5/. pd 60,006 ......... Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 10. 1 ,1 pd ((rand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. p 1 Great North of England lBl. pd 5,000 Great Western lOO/ sir. 651. pd 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. o h. 1001 pi 8,000 Hull and ~ elby 501. sh. 20; pd 10,009 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 2 ,100 31. per cont. Leeds and 5e1by........ • 100 , sh. 1 , 50 0 1/.55. Leicester and Swannington ....501, sh. all pd 5 , 109 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10146h. 1004 psi 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 36,000 London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 141 pd 12,000 London and Blackwell 501. sh. 31. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich Ol. sh. 201. pd 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares Si. pd 20,000 Ditto ditto New l5/. pd 11,000 London and Croydon Trunk 20/. sh. 2 0 /. pd 6,1100 Ditto New Scrip 12,0110 London Grand Junction 511/. sh. Si. pd 13,000 ..... .... Manchester and Leeds 100/. oh, 401. pd 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 704 sh. 10/. pd North Midland 1001, sh. 551. pd Northe-n and Eastern 1004 sh. 151. pd 2,660 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 311 pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 9l. pd 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ION. sh. 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 21. pd 6,001) York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd MINES. ME DEVIL'S la AW S.-In consequence of a reso lution passed at a meeting of the Anti-Corn Law Association last Wednes:lay, Mr. Poulton, of Boulton, has been invited to deliver two lectures in this town upon the effects of the corn monopoly on the trade and manufactures of the country and on the condition of the people. —Manchester Times. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Newcastle Coffee-house, St. Mary-at. Hill, before Mr. Payne, on view of the body of Stephen Twy man, a , ed 38 years. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a fisher man, belonging to the Unity, of Margate. On the previous morning he was coming on shore to breakfast from the vessel, which was lying off Billingsgate, when, in crossing over a boat, his foot slipped, and he fell overboard. An alarm was instantly given, and every possible exertion made to save him. but it was upwards of an hour before the body was got out of the water. Verdict, " Accidental Death." The deceased has left a widow and four young children totally unpravided for. EXCURSIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF RONDA AND GREN ADA. --The forthcoming work, under the above title, from the pen of Captain Scott, author of " Travels in Egypt and Candia," presents a novelty which promises to be highly attractive to the literary world ; the gallant officer's " Excursions" being interspersed with numerous sketches il lustrative of the manners of the rude inhabitants of the ro mantic regions he visited, and from the graphic style of the author, and the vein of h umour an d sat i re t h at ru ns through his work on Egypt, we ant i c i pate muc h re li s h f rom his obser vations on a pe o pl e so per f ect l y or i g i nal as the nat i ve s ofthe South of S t ain, as we ll as i nterest i n hi s d escr iption of a country on which, although much has been written, more yet remains to be said. THE TWEED SALMON FISHINGS.—The Tweed salmon fishings closed on Monday last, the 15th inst., being the day fixed by the Act for the commencement of the close time. On taking a retrospect of the season, we regret to say it is found that in its results it forms no exception to the fact established by the experience of former years, that in the Tweed, as in most of the rivers in Scotland, a gradual de crease has for many years past been observed! in the produce of these fishings. Up to the middle of July last the pros pects of the fishing were more discouraging than perhaps has ever been experienced during any former season. The aug mentation which usually takes place at that season in the num ber of grilses, however, gave an impulse to the fishings which has continued up to the close; and the result is, that while in the number of grilses the fishing has, during the season, been Letter than that of last year, it has been decidedly worse as respects salmon and trouts ; and, taking the aggregate of all these kinds of fish, the produce has been scarcely equal to that of last year. The same remark was applicable to the fishings of last year on comparin; them with the year preceding ; and infinitely more so to the fishings of the year before last on comparing their result with that of 1835, to which year's fishing the produce of that of the present year is supposed to bear only the proportion of one-fourth ; and thus does the gradual decrease become apparent, as, by tracing it through a period of nearly 30 years, the diminution is the more marked the farther back we go. In Scotland the pro duce of the fishings this year is supposed, upon the whole, not to exceed one-half of what it was a year or two ago—a cir cumstance which the proprietors of the Tweed fisheries, look ing only to their own interests, have no reason to regret, as, had there been no such decrease in the northern fisheries, the proprietors of those fisheries would have been enabled to un dersell them in the market ; whereas, the failure being gene ral, an uniform rise in prices has taken place, to an extent which has enabled them to contend against the evil of a dimi nution in the produce. This very striking decrease in the produce of the fishings has for some time past engaged the at tention of proprit tors of salmon fisheries; and various causes, both general and local in their application, have been assigned for it ; but no cause has yet been sufficiently determined to induce the adoption of any remedy. There is reason to sup pose that, should the matter not be thoroughly investigated, and a remedy devised for the diminution, the breed of salmon will in a few years become nearly, if not altogether, extinct in all the rivers throughout the country.—Berwick Warder. On Tuesdily evening last a person, in trying to escape one of-tho watchmen who was in pursuit of him, ran into the river Aike, a little above Mr. Pullan's shop, in Water lane, and the river being at that time much swollen by the rain which had fallen during the previous day, he was imme diately carried down under a vessel lying at a wharf a little below, and after much struggling he succeeded in reaching the bridge, where he clung to the projections for two or three minutes, but was at last again borne onwards by the current. On his cries being heard from the bridge intelligence was im mediately dispatched to Mr. H. Rinder, of the Seven Stars, Dock-street, secretary to the Leeds Humane Society, w h o , with the assistance of several individuals then in the house, im mediately dispatched one of the life-boats belonging to the Society, and the poor man was at last rescued from his perilous situation a little below the Aire and Calder Navigatio n ware house, a distance of three hundred yards from the place where he entered the water, in a state of exhaustion. He was then conveyed to the Seven Stars, where Mr. Atkinson, th e Society's surgeon, had already arrived, who, after administering a little brandy, found recourse to the apparatus unnecessary. —Leeds Intelligencer. ANOTHER FlRE.—Yesterday afternoon, between one and two o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Berry, bricklayes, Lisson-grove, Edgware-road, and did considerable damage, The fire arose, it is supposed, from some linen being placed too near the fire to air, the draught of the chimney causing it to blow against the grate. The furniture and premises are insured. 8,000 Albion Copper 4,000 11. 53. Allen 5/. sh. 31/. pd 10,000 ...151. sh. 121. lOs pd Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription ' 3 51. pa 2,000 1"1. Bolanos ' l5Ol. sh all pd 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm....... 35/. sh. 20/ pd 6,0: 0 Macaubas zir Cocaes United ...251. sh. .1. pd 11,000 ... ...... Ditto St. John Del Rey......... 20/. sh. 14/. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd 10,000 ...-.... ' Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 101. pi 20,00) British Iron 50/. sh. 50/ pd 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. pd Cata Blanca.. 6,3,/. i d Candonga 7ll. pd 10,000 11 Copiapo "01. oh, 13/. pd 8,500 ••• Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31. English 20,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 171. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 55 1 /. pd 3,000 Polberon Consols lOl. sh 8/. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 5 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm -.404 shl.a.oll pct 30,000 at t. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5l pd West ('ork 501 sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,500 700 King' College lOO/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian A g ricultural....loo/. sh. 2FiL pd 6,000 4/, per cent. B ritish American Land Compa ny ... 30/. 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,(a Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 1/. Os. General Steams Sale Na Rooms v igation...lsl. sh. 141. pd 101.p i el Av. 751, oh. A,OOO ......... Caoutchone Company ....... -.251 sh. 1211. pd 500,00 0 1. National Loan Fu nd 'l. ss:pd ......... cent. LoHunddsoonn'cs o n m ay 2,000 . New Brunswick Land Companyaepd 2,754 M. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 51, per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 701. pd Thames Tunnel 50/. sh. all pd 4,0(51 ......... 10.000 6 g . Van Die nen's Land 1001. oh. 171. pd 20,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES OCT. 11, 1838, BANKS. „ 61 p • ct. Bar -of Scotland 83/. 6s. Bd. sh. all pd MS/. 1. 500 . 00 ' „ "•• ..' „.. e-t ct. .R. .of Scotland 100/. sh, all p d 1 621. 2,000. 0 1". i g r P. Br.cish Linen Company 1001. s h . a ll p d 2401. 500 'O,VI. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 177/ . 3,000 0(1 . , ci , ,%., tional lOO4 W sh. 10/. pd 1 50000°' ? t Glasgow Union 250/ . s h . 501. pd 2,0 0° , 0 1' 6 4 .. r.).. et. Western 2001. sh 401. 6 5/. .. of Scotland pd 69/. 4,000,M • INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25(.0005h , 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 30 s - ,50 0 rii P . ct. Hercules 100/ . s h . 1 0/. pd 141. Oi. .1, 000 sp, ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland -JO/. sh. all pd 91, 10 s. 50, "' )0 6p. ct. North British 200/. s h . 10/ . pd 18/. 0t 1,000 sp. et. Caledoni.in Fire 1004 sh. 10/. pd 20f. O s nn fi 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/ . sh. 10/. p. 4 14/10s `"•.-,.. Si p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 100,w , MISCELLANEOUS 710 s ........ Edin. and Gias. Un. Cana1...50/. s h . a ll pd lei. 4,810 Ditto Allocated .901. sh, all pd 501. 5.400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.... 25/. sh. all pd 391 Carron Iron Company ~.,,,2501. sh. all pd 4 4 1. 2,000,h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery... ..... .501. sh 4S/. pd 524 „ ow 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass ....201. sh. 16/. pd 6/ 4,500 10 per ce,st. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 611 10 pe - cent. Glasgow Gas .. 25/. sh. all pd 13.1/. 4,450 750 . 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 504 1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith RaPway...sol. sh SU 5 per Celg. Efillitlb r e 14111Canpafiri s t,M, vit-pil 91, fit FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby. Radborne Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.—Cornet F. Hurt to be Lieutenant, Oct. 12. An Account of the Aggregate Amount of Notes circulated, in England and Wales, by Private Banks and by Joint Stock Banks and their Branches, distinguishing Private from Joint Stock Banks, between the 30th June and the 29th September, 1838. From Returns directed by 3 and 4 W. IV., c. 83. Private Banks £7,083,811 Joint Stock Banks .. 4,281,151 E 11,364,962 HENRY L. WICKHAM. Stamps and Taxes, Oct. 23, 1838. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, tea-dealer, Halifax, York shire. WILLIAM DRAKE, licensed victualler, George-street, Saint Giles's. BANKRUPTS. MARTHA ING, licensed victualler, Mount Pleasant, Cler kenwell, to surrender Nov. 2, at half-past eleven, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, Finsbury-square, official assignee ; Pile, Hatton-garden. JOHN JAMES, baker, Birmingham, Nov. 3, and Dec. 4, at one, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Gatty and Turner, Red Lion-square, London ; Cresswell, Birminghaiii. JOHN EDMONDSON, miller, Marsden, Lancashire, Nov. 22, and Dec. 4, at ten, at the Swan Inn , Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Wilding and Fisher, Blackburn. PHILLIP GRESLEY, licensed victualler, Golden-lane, Nev. 6, at eleven, and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Armstrong, Red Lion street, Clerkenwell. JOSEPH CLIFFE, auctioneer, Woodbank, Chester, Nov. 1, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Green Dragon Inn, Chester. Chester, Staple-inn: London ; Walker, Chester. THOMAS WILLIS, victualler, Great Yarmouth, Nov. 5 and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Great Yarmouth. Jay, Nor wich ; Helme, Raymond-buildings, Gray's-inn, London. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. C. Allen, brickmaker, Isleworth, Nov. 13, at half-past eleven. L. Allen, tanner, Great Coggeshall, Essex, Nov. 13, at half past eleven. J. Rumpus, bookseller, Newgate-street, City, Nov. 14, at 12. J. Craig and J. Davies, merchants, Basinghall-street, Nov. 14, at twelve. T. Parkin, jun. and D. Brown, ship brokers, Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street, City, Nov. 14, at half-past twelve. A. Goldschmidt and Co., merchants, Great St. Helens, City, Nov. 14, at eleven. J. and J. B. Kenworthy, warehousemen, Ironmonger-lane, City, Nov. 13, at half-past one. W. P. Lander, surgeon, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Nov. 14, at one. W. Huskisson, chemist, Haggerstone, Middlesex, Nov. 13, at one. E. Smith, linen draper, Rochester, Nov. 13. B. Parnham, sail maker, High-street, Shadwell, Nov. 15, at. eleven. WY. Davies, tailor, Queen-street, 'Mayfair, Nov. 15, at half-past eleven. G. Pocock, manufacturing chemist, Booth.street, Spitalfields. Nov. 15, at half-past twelve. W. Mallett, warehouseman, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside, Nov. 15, at twelve. H. Siffken, merchant, Bush-lane, City, Nov. 13, at half-past twelve. - . In the Country. W. Stamper, tin plate worker, Cockermouth, Cumberland, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Crown and Mitre Inn, Cockermouth.. E. Clark, builder, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, Nov. 15, at two, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors. J. R. and E. Taylor, earthenware manu'aeturers, Masbrough, Yorkshire, Nov. 14, at twelve, at the Town Hall, Sheffield. T: S. Marston, carpenter, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, Nov. 15, at two, at the Lansdowne Hotel Leamington Priors. G. Blenkin and W. Shackleton, merchants, Kingston-upon- Hull, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the George Inn, Whitefriargate, K ingston-upon- Hull. W. V. Wilks, factor, Birmingham, Nov. 13, at twelve, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. B. Buchanan and D. Laird, merchants, Liverpool, Nov. 15, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. J. Wright, grocer, Liverpool, Nov. 15, at oae, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES, Nov. 13. G. Tuck, grocer, Cleveland-street. Fitzroy-square. P. Beautiment, builder, Seaham, Durham. H. Wilby, card-maker, High Town, Yorkshire. C. George, builder, Paddington- street, Marylebone. J. J. Wilcock, surgeon, Hovingham, Yorkshire. W. Wakeman, wharfinger, Stone, Staffordshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. Beswick and C. Gittings, ale merchants, Norwich. A. M. Cox and E. Clare, milliners, Liverpool. J. Finch and T. Swindlehurst, roller-makers, Preston, Lanca shire. J. Johnson and W. Warren, timber-merchants, Altrinchavn, Chester. J. Forsyth and H. Kirkby, carvers and gilders, Leeds. T. Smith, S. Hyde, and J. Lenox, merchants, Billiter-square, London (so far as regards T. Smith). W. Copley and J. Rushton, Manchester. J. Milne and A. M'Laren, merchants, Edinburgh. S. Evans and B. F. Evans, tailors, Finsbury-place, Finsbury. G. Thorpe, J. R. Glossop, and J. E. Middleton, table-knife manufacturers, Sheffield. .T. Boswood and H. Foyster, common carriers, Eye, Suffolk. T. Clarkson and J. Broughton, coach makers, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of last Evening.) SUGAR.—The demand for West India Muscovadoes on Wednesday and Thursday last was extremely limited, but on Friday there was more life in the market ; the stocks in second hands getting low, particularly those held by the refiners, caused buyers to come forward and purchase freely, and the de pression which occurred in prices on Tuesday last was reco vered: the quantity sold on that day amounted to 1,200 hhds and trs, making the purchases since our last 1,800 hhds and trs, including a public sale of 116 hhds Barbadoes. which sold at 58s to 63s for mid to good quality, being previous rates ; sales of Grenada and Tobago of low yellow quality have been made at 525, better Jamaica 53s 6d, good mid 57s 6d, An_ tigua mid 55s to 565, fine sorts above 60s are scarce. The surplus in the stock continues to increase, and the delivery last week was small. Prices are nearly 4s lower than at this period last year, and when compared with those of 1836 they exhibit a depression of nearly 12s per cwt. Up to the present time 16.000 hhds more have been received than in 1837. This afternoon there was a good business doing, both for the scale and pan ; the private purchases amount to 900 hhds and trs at Friday's prices, besides which 125 hhds 6 barrels Bar badoes at auction brought former rates, and went at 58, to 655, according to quality. The stock of West India Sugar is now 42,373 hhds and trs, being 12,051 more than last year. Tire stock of Mauri. tius is now 64 859, bags, which is 6,689 more than last year. The delivery of West India last week was 2.526 hhds sad trs, which is 270 less than last year. The delivery of Mauri tius was 3,065 bags, being 3,760 less than the corresponding week of last y ear. The Gazette Average Price is now 31s 10 . id, against 35s 8d in 1837, and 43s B,cd in 1836. REFINED.—The grocers have come forward more freely, and a fair demand has been experienced at previous rates ; sales of fair and good strong Lumps made at 70s to 735, common 68s to 695, and 141 b Hamburg Loaves 755. For shipping there is at present scarcely any demand, 34s 6d is required for double Crushed under the Queen's lock, at which one or two small parcels have been sold, and which are still the only goods now to be met with suitable for that pur pose, the few houses at work are only making to supply the wants of the home trade. Treacle, although not so brisk as it was, has met with a steady demand, and maintained the ad vanced rates of this day week. Pieces have sold steadily at former prices. In Bastards there has been scarcely anything doing, but they are not offered on former terms. For Dutch Crushed Sugar there is no demand at present. This afternoon the price of double Crushed in the Docks is still 34s 6d; in the market no price has yet been fixed. Gro cery goods in steady request. Matuartus.—Prices have undergone little variation since our last, but the purchases privately have been but to a limited extent, and only 800 bags have been offered at auction, which went at 47s to 49s 6d for mid to good brown, and 53s 6d to 61s for mid to fine yellow. EAST INDIA.—The holders of Bengal having again sup plied the market sparingly, -late rates have been maintained, but the Grocers have purchased cautiously, and the operations have been Frincipally confined to a public sale of 240 bags which went at 61s 6d to 62s 6d for low mid white, and 59s to 62s for damps. For export descriptions the demand has abated ; and in the absence of public sales the purchases pri vately in Manilla and Siam have been limited, and confined to 1,500 bags of the former at 21s 6d for low brown soft quality, including some damps and washed, but at present lower prices have not been accepted. This afternoon 3,256 bags Manilla at public sale brought full prices, mid brown to good greyish yellow, 21s 6d to 235; damps and washed, 20s to 22s 6d per cwt. FOREION.—YeIIow Havannah, 300 boxes, have been dis posed at fully former rates, viz., 25s to 27s for low to fine yellow of mid quality. White Havannahs are also in limited demand. A small parcel of white Bahias has been sold afloat at 28s 6d, and 40 chests of soft yellow and brown ditto on the spot at 21s 6d ; 1,200 boxes very ord yellow has been sold for Holland at 27s per cwt. This afternoon 616 boxes yellow Havannah at public sale sold at 6d advance, and brought 263 to 28s 6d for mid to fine quality. MOLASSES.—The demand for West India has become limited, but lower prices have not been submitted to. COFFEE.—British Plantation, mid to fine mid qualities have brought fully previous rates, for fine ord sorts is advance has been obtained. Jamaica of favourite marks at 140 s to 1403 6d, one lot 1465, fine mid 1365, good mid 118 s to 1235, low mid to mid 106 s to 112 s fine to fine fine ord 1003 to 105 s, good ord 98s to 995, triage 93s to 955, Demerara ord unclean 86s, clean Dominica fine fine ord pale 97s 6d to 98s, low mid 102 a to 104 s, unclean 98s, Berbice fine fine ord 98s to 993 ; East India descriptions have undergone no change in value ; Ceylon, 985 6d a 99, for good ord, and 100 s for fine ord with colour; Mocha, 1103 for greenish clean garbled ; good to fine ord colory Brazil, at 42s a 445 6d; at auction 3,380 bags only partly found buyers at 6d decline, good ord coloury 40s to 40s 6d, fine 43s a 44s 6d ; St. Domingo is held firmly at 40s a 45a, according to quality. Cocoa. —West India has undergone no change in value, but the purchases have been limited. In Foreign there is more activity ; a cargo of Guayaquilbas been sold on the spot. TEA.—Congou very ord, not better than Fokien Bohea, and forming no criterion to market prices, went at 101 d a Is Op, common is is lid a is lid, but mid is Is 24d a Is 3d, blackish leaf and strong descriptions ls 4d up to Is 11d, fine 2s a 2s 2 4 - 3 d. Pekoe flavour 2s 3d a 2s bid; Hyson ord Is lld a 2s 1 lid, fi ne 4s aid a 4s sd, very fine 4s 6id a 4s 7d and 4s 9d ;Young Hyson is 6d a Is 744; Hysou Skin ls 2d a 15514; Caper ------ f. MARRIED. the orP On the 20th inst., at St. Paul's, Hammersmith , 111'00 Re - R. J. Thomas, Frederick Crafer, Esq., of her .MajestY 's to• Miss Fanny Cooper, of Shepherd's-bush. Pe a a e ; : On the 16th inst., at Ensham, Oxon, the Rev. ffe nt Y of Rector of St. John's, Bedford, to Maria, eldest daug hter r ef late Hon. Mr. Justice Taunton, of Freeland Lodge. , t.D ., ia On the 16th inst., at Wincanton, Somersetshire, ' of Baker, to Miss Mogg. geell a PlO On the 18th inst., at Islington Church, Mr. James 15te Kennington, Surrey, to Ellen, only daughter of th e ° bille t ; Ruddick, Esq., of the Audit Office. 0 ' Is t On the 20th inst., at St. Peter's, Wallingford , P h , the Esq., of Harting, Sussex, to Priscilla, only daughter 0' lki• V' James Flamank, Esq., M.D., of Wallingford. Esq'' Ite tt. At Portsmouth, on the 20th inst., David Burnes', o iet iste e, surgeon, of Vernon. place, Bloomsbury-square, to n a ot er-p i second daughter of Dr. Alexander Anderson, of G it ' e .., 11' Southsea, and late of Brompton- row. London. ,„ sivill!,'" in co: On the 20th inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, A ur ' 110. '- Fleming, of Camberwell, to Mary, second daughter of .L a re" of Abergavenny, f -tal ° to On the 22d inst., at St. George's Church, 1-1--anel_Dreagools4, William Roebuck, Esq., Captain in the 1 1 th Light gnipep Catherine, only surviving daughter of John Augustus On the 18th inst., at Boulogne-sus-Ater, ---------- Chtl iteg "0 5 11. * Martin, A formerly of Vintners' Hall. . t vatert l4°' At Tenterden, on the 10th inst., Mr. William Hop e - A aged 25. of Alfred Lord, Esq, surgeon glnEe:D.su.r-Mer, aged i P Darfor u " On the 20th inst., in Basing-lane, Mr. John Williatn. , aot soo On the 20th inst., at Trinidad-place, Islington, the 0 " , SP, On the 21st inst ,at Lindsay-row, Chelsea, Timothy IR° Esq., aged 55. . ~ f ees M I6 At the Bedford Hotel, Brighton, on the 22d inst., rr•-- LinnLy"' ~,n. youngest daughter of the late John Ashton, Esq. On the 17th inst., at the house of Mr. Warner Will3l , e l 89. in Essex, Mrs. Jane Farley. late of Croydon, in Surrey, t"sicefield, On the 18th inst., Eliza Helen, the wife of Henri Esq., surgeon, Albion-place, King's-cross, aged 38' G. London: and Published by MIIRDO 0 wog 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, is sie of Mfdlons.—We4nesdoy, eitinior 24, 11.311. Sf 181 14 IGOf 46 II 29 99 106; 22 is Ida Is 71d; Souchong Is lid a 2s 10c1; Imperiat 2s 61 a 3. 61d ; Gunp .wder 3s a 4- 3 , 1, fi:o and very fine 4 7 1 to 4s 8 ; P, koe 2s to 2s 3V, fie. 2s 9: l d to 24 Po:ch,ng Is Id to is ; Cam e oi is 13 to is 2d; Twan kay, common is 4d to is 41-d, fair is 51 to Is 6d; Hysoatv kind Is 7d to is Ild ; Flowery Pekoe 2 s 9 d to 3s Sd, a fe lots superior 5s lid to 5; 3d; Orange ditto is 6 d to 24114 some lots 3s 11d to 3; sid, black leaf ditto Is 8d to 2s 6d Hung Muey is 23 to Is I Id; Canton Bohea B id a 91d Fokien, is 4d per lb. To-day Twankays common sold at is 4141 to Is 41-d, rather better Is 6d ; Fokien Bohea is bad to is 8d; Congou strongo 2s Oid to 2; lid, fine 2s 6d to 2s 71d; Young Hyson is 71 3 t Is lld ; Ditto Skin 2s to 2s 54c1; Hy son 3s 6d ; Souchong 2 , 6 d to 2s 6id ; Imperial 3s 5d ; Padre Souchong is 73 t° Is 84d per lb. The total quantity passed the chair is now 223,900 packages', out of which 100,000 have been actually sold at prices not above Id to 2,.d under those of the July sale. The sale will be brought to a termination on Thursday next. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The transaction; in Ja maica have been 250 puns, 28 to 30 per cent over-proof at 45 10d a 4s 11d, 32 to 35 over 5s a 5; 23, 36 to 38 over 5s 3r l 8 Ss 43. Of Leewards 150 puns. have been sold, proofs to 5 pet cent. over at 3s. 2d. a 3s. 4d, 6 to I 1 over 3s 5d a 3; 7d, 12 0 16 over 3s 8d a3s 11d, 16 to 20 over 45 a 44 21, 22 to 26 over 4s 3d a 4s 63, 28 to 30 over 4s 8d a 4s 103, 32 to 38 ove r 4s 1 Id a ss; the arrivals since our last have been 164 putts and hhds. Brandy-4s 53 a4s 7d paid for first brands of the vintage of 1836, and 4s 34 a4a 5d fur 1837. For arrival vies have been made of the first brands of 1837 at 4s 4d in putts' and 4s 61 in hhds. British Coin Spirits steady at lOs 23. SFlCES.—Pepper—Sumatra fair at 4d. East India Ginger is not much wanted at present ; West India 31 Ils to 5/. 145 for low to mid quality. Cassia Lignea, mid at 56s to 57, good 593 6d to 60s, fine thin quality 64s to 675, very coarse large sticks 37s to 395. The Cinnamon sales take place on the 29t Pimento good mid shipping quality at 3-J to 34d, very g ood at 4d. Faurr.—ln new Valencia Raisins a steady business has been done at 40s, a considerable parcel of new Muscatel Raisin s . was brought to public sale, of which however onl y p ar` was sold at the following reduced pricos—viz. boxes Muscatel: Raisins 60s to 635, half-boxes ditto 65s to 67a, quarter boxes 75s to 85s, cartoons in cases 90s to 953; boxes and half boxes Nluscaiel Raisins in layers 75s to 83s; drums Mala All Figs bought in at 335. The first cargo of new Patras Cur rants has been brought to market, and the price fixed at 75 4 ' at which part has been sold; in old fruit scarcely any thing has been done. INDIGO.-East India now rules 4d a 6d for good to fine , and 2d to 3 , 1 for ord to mid d• scriptions above those of the July sale. The sale will conclude to-morrow. OlLS.—Rather lower prices have been accepted for COa and Seal. Southern at 251 to 271 10; for low to fine quality Sperm has supported its former currency. Linseed has fell eP to 28s 6d. Rape has sold slowly, brown at 42s 61, and pa le at 43s 63. Palm-225 casks at auction sold at 441 to 441 55 ' East India Cocoa Nut 4815 s to 48/ 15s. 93 TALLOW —ln P. Y. C. on the spot, under 55; 6cl to 55 5 f there are no ; for delivery in the first three months ° next year, 56s is required. SALTPETRE.-1.309 bags Calcutta of fine quality fired at auction, and all sold, refraction 3FI to 2 per cent a 25s a 265, one lot 26s 6d. English Refined unaltered. re This afternoon at public sale 1,201 bags Calcut ta we taken in at 25s 64 for refraction 41- to 3i per cent. were of; COtTNTRY CORN MARKETS , -------- , r e O e. r neat. Barley. Oats. iirans. ...............;.: Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to a. Is.to s. s• .., Roston 6) 66 29 30 19 23 39 41 --- ... Gainaborough — C 6 31 23 44 -- --- Grantham ...... G r imsby - Horncastle 43 7) 1 , 2 37 20 24 36 42 --- ... Lincoln.. - .0 , Spalding Stamford i4B 7 , 28 33 21 25 38 44 --- , York 5O 70 26 34 24 26 32 44 -- LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, OCT. 23. , '1 he wrivals of foreign Wheat and other grain to this oaY is Market were limited. A brisk demand has existed for W h n e ja throughout the week, and a large quantity of foreign w ag at an advance of 4d. to 6d. on last Tuesday's c urre %o Our Market this morning was well attended both by t° t t and country dealers, who were ready purchasers of Wbeahlet the above improvement, and for Flour and Oatmeal big, he prices were obtained, 60i. to 623. having been paid for 4a. former, and 295. 6d. for the latter. Oats brought 3s. ati per 45 lbs. A good business was transacted in Dario' full prices. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 23 " e re ears not to-day were again xtremely large, ar,d appears not the slightest abatement in the demand for Cott ° ,, i ii Prices are exceedingly steady with a tendency to a dvance °i v farther, as Cotton is sparingly offered at present. Spe c t he tors purchased 1,000 Surat, and 3,C 00 American, and.; entire sales amount to 8,000 bags; 2,500 Surat, 41d. toira 5,500 American, sid. to Bd.—Total, 8,000. IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK :NDING 00, To 1": 4 9 33 6 . 3 . 16 6 15 4 14 3 11 6 —0 I 0 I '-nyn 35 Wheat, per barrel 20 5t0ne...... I 29 0 0 Bere lti stone k., 77 Barley 241 Oats 0 Flour, per cwt ... S Et.mc — 0 0 0atmea1....,....,......., 8 stone 0 Sold to Bakers only. 16,2 q Cwt. Flour 22 0 05 6I" 4 Average priceo ,7, f 7l. l l le, i a r t st a s nd Flour 50.. 4,er pestnic^3s.. Od. Receipts of Flour, i , Sales of Do. 18,003 Seconds at PAIGE Tffi Quartern Loaf 6y d. 1 Half Quartern ...... 4 d CORK MARKETS. Oct '2O. • 8 pil.toll s 2 Wheat (per 205t.)...21s rd. to39s. 6d.1 Oats (per 14st.) ...... ... 2 5 I) OFI 1,..n...0nf.r0m 10i. Od. to 12; 01. Barley (per 165 t.),.. 9 0 10 0 1 Flour (per cwt ) ..... 7 • Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. (Id. to la", Od. Beef, 4d. to 7d.; Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal , 4d trs ad. ; Pork, 414. to 5d.; Fresh Butter, 10d. to 11d, per lb. PRICE OF RU TER. To the Merchants. First Quality Second Third ,• C 4 Fourth 73 ............................ _ Fifth 62 .............................. :,;?, Sixth .................................................................................... 50 .............................. 4v . r 7:l ::: a n t r,, CLONMELL MARKETS.—Oct. 20 Per Cwt er d. to I,i 0 New B 86 0 utter B2 oto Hides (raw) lO — 8 Oatmeal 12 6 13 6 Bacon Pigs 3 Rendered Lard /44 0 Heads Di Per Bag. Flour, Second . . ... — 34 0 ; Flour, Thirds ........ • u —Household 11 32 0; Fourths ...... li * 6 Per Barrel. 13 Rapeseed 20 0 0 1 Barley ...12 1 0 here.... 8 4 10 0 / Coals _ 0 6 Per Stone. „ 4 Wheat. Ol4 016 I Tallow (rough) 4 0 Oats 0 7 0$ J P o t a t oes 0 3 P I KILKENNY MARKETS. Od. toy 6 wheat (per barrel) 31s Od. to 245. Od. Beef (per 1b...--. Os. 0 5 0 ? Barley l4 0 16 0 Mutton Oats . S$ 10 0 Pork r lour (per bag).... t 6 0 42 0 0 Veal 5 I S " Butter(per cwt.)... 54 0 90 0 Fresh Butter 0 0 0 1,, Bacon Pigs 35 0 3 6 0 salt Ditto Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes (per 5t.)... 0 2 0 1/11; MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL, " b : NEY MARRIED," being the continuation and cornpletiell'opys; s pr,pular " GILBERT GURNEY," is to be published in a f e nd e i This autobiography (exceeding in wit and humour 01714 t the kind recently produced) has excited so much jet ,hco the reading world as to cause the appearance of th e for'-jer ing volumes to be looked forward to with mcee than Lot, ba; pectation. Master Gilbe r t" will, no doubt, prove g't morons, entertaining, and instructive, in his eb eracte " Benedict" as he was wont to do in his single state. o f er On Monday Mr. Charles Taylor, a farnioftitl Market Rasen, committed suicide by taking a larg e 9b s e of arsenic mixed with brandy. Mr. Taylor had met Ai bie ral severe pecuniary disappointments, which appear W. o tie ° preyed upon his mind, and to have produced the &a°te of taking away his life.--Beston Herald, r o rn T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47 , London ( Seven Doors fromGracechurch-street), informs w it 's, i' ee that he offers DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES and FOR" t 1 . 10 0 plain ivory handles, silver ferrules, plated on steel blades , a Guill e Guineas per dozen pair, or with solid silver blades, at Eigh t and a Half per dozen pair. p sif• N. B. Carved ivory handles at 13s. 6d. extra p!r_c.....10..-//j____/' 5. 4. 14 : BIRTHS. 01l At Stamford Hill, on the 9 0th inst., Mrs. William W alks % s son. On the 17th inst., in Grosvenor-street, Mrs. Bog 4eii, daughtt r. _